Beans
If you're a passionate gardener, these legumes are your secret ingredient for healthy and delicious meals. Each of these varieties has a rich history and a flavour profile like no other.
Beans are frost-sensitive and prefer full sun. Well-improved soil will provide superior crops.
Best grown by direct seeding 10-15 days after your last frost date. Plant seeds directly where they are to grow 2.5-3cm deep. Individual plant spacing is 30-40cm and 40cm between rows. Germination takes 7-10 days. Soil temps should be above 13ºC, otherwise, seed may rot in the ground. Bush beans will be the first to produce and you can start harvesting early varieties from about 50-55 days. Pole beans take a while longer and will produce from around 65+ days.
Broad Beans: A.k.a. fava beans. A bush variety needing support. Enjoys cooler weather and can tolerate mild frost. Best planted in autumn or early spring.
Bush Beans: A.k.a. dwarf beans. Very quick and rewarding crop. Produces early, with flushes of sweet, tender beans. Plant after the last frost.
Pole Beans: These are climbing beans that require support in order to climb. The more often their pods are picked, the more they produce.
Runner Beans: A productive bean that requires support to climb. Best picked young. These beans require stringing yet more than make up for the effort with exceptional flavour.
Lima Beans: A.k.a. butter beans. Very productive, rambling, bushy plants. Requires a long, warm season to produce. Mainly used as shelly or dry beans.
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Aquadulce
Vica faba An exceptional heirloom variety, Aquadulce has lead the market for early winter broad b..
R36.32
Australian Rattlesnake
Phaseolus vulgarisThis is the same as the original Rattlesnake Beans, however they were grown in Aus..
R31.48
Austrian Kaefer Bohnen
Limited Stock Available!! Please Limit yourself to 1 Packet per Customer!!! Phaseolus coccine..
R32.20
Baby Sun Bush Bean
Phaseolus vulgarisA prolific producer of delicious green, round stringless beans on compact bushes. ..
R35.11
Bird Egg Blue
Phaseolus vulgaris This is a beautifully coloured bean, from deep blue to a purple with brown spo..
R33.90
Black Butter Bean
Phaseolus vulgarisA compact producer of stunning, yellow pods that have a sublimely silky mouthfeel ..
R36.06
Black Eye Beans
Vigna unguiculataBlack Eye Beans are a sub-species of cow peas. AKA Black-eyed Pea, Black-eyed Bean ..
R32.69
Black Trout
Phaseolus vulgaris A rare Heirloom bush bean variety from Germany. Similar in looks and growth ha..
R33.49
Black Turtle Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris Known as Black Turtle Bean in English, Feijão Preto is a quintessential elemen..
R33.90
Blue Grey Speckled Tepary
Phaseolus acutifoliusBelieved to be of Mayan decent, these beans were first cultivated by the Hohoka..
R33.90
Blue Jay Bush
Phaseolus vulgarisThis stunning bean was found and named by Russ Crow in Illinois in 1977. The beaut..
R35.11
Blue Lake Bush Beans
Phaseolus vulgarisLIMITED STOCK!This is a very well-known, productive bush bean that produces strin..
R24.21
Blue Lake Pole Beans
Phaseolus vulgaris A tender, tasty, and sweet green bean variety, that produces green pods that a..
R34.78
Blue Peter Pole Beans
Phaseolus vulgaris A very well-known and much loved runner bean. The beans are a dark purple and ..
R35.11
Borlotti
Phaseolus vulgarisAn old Italian heirloom and a close relative to the kidney bean. These beans are a..
R35.11
Brown Beauty
Phaseolus vulgaris Named after its beautiful chocolate brown seeds, this sublime green bean is in..
R32.69
Chester
Phaseolus vulgaris Also known as Flagg & Chester, Skunk bean and Flaff pole, Chester is a pol..
R33.90
Chilean Butter Bean
Phaseolus vulgarisThis compact bush produces stunning pods that contain light coloured, creamy butte..
R34.13
Chrom Pole Bean
Phaseolus vulgarisThe true beauty and fascination of these beans lie in the appearance of the seed..
R28.34
Chrom Short Bean
Phaseolus vulgarisThe true beauty and fascination of these beans lie in the appearance of the seed –..
R28.34